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Overview
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Writer:
Robert Towne (writer)
Release Date:
26 May 1983 (Australia)
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Plot:
The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris...
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Lesbianism
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Running
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Lesbian Athlete
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Drugs
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Injury
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(2 articles)
Birthday Suits: Deserve's Got Nothin' To Do With it
(From FilmExperience. 22 November 2009, 10:47 AM, PST)
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 4 November 2009, 12:49 PM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 22 November 2009, 10:47 AM, PST)
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 4 November 2009, 12:49 PM, PST)
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not perfect, but important
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mariel Hemingway | ... | Chris Cahill |
 | Scott Glenn | ... | Terry Tingloff |
 | Patrice Donnelly | ... | Tory Skinner |
| Kenny Moore | ... | Denny Stites |
| Jim Moody | ... | Roscoe Travis |
| Kari G. Peyton | ... | Penny Brill (as Kari Gosswiller) |
| Jodi Anderson | ... | Nadia 'Pooch' Anderson |
| Maren Seidler | ... | Tanya |
| Martha Watson | ... | Sheila |
| Emily Dole | ... | Maureen |
| Pam Spencer | ... | Jan |
| Deby Laplante | ... | Trish |
| Mitzi McMillin | ... | Laura |
| Jan Glotzer | ... | Karen |
| Jan Van Reenen | ... | Yelovitch |
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124 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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While in post production, the sound engineers could not quite capture the sound they needed to simulate when a runner's foot hit the track during a race. They finally created the right sound by taking pieces of bundled audio tape and hitting the floor of the sound booth with the tape bundles.
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Terry Tingloff:
The high jump is a masochists event-it always ends on failure.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in It's in the Water (1997)
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THE THUNDERER
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As flawed as it might seem, and as much as Mariel Hemingway's body may have been exploited in the interest of box office sales... This was a very important movie for me and many girls my age. It was the first movie we ever saw that let us know that we weren't the only girls in the world who liked other girls. And it showed us that this could be beautiful and that we weren't freaks. For that it will always hold a special place in my heart. And the same goes for many other lesbians around my age.